Reflavoring Potential of the ARMORER ARTIFICER | 10 Character Concepts D&D
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- Turning the rusty gears on new Artificer characters! Make armor out of skins or gods? or Jaeger a super machine! Lets don a new set of ideas for your next ARMORER character!
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0:00 Making Modifications
2:10 The Bond
3:14 The Crafter
4:14 The Were-Beast
5:19 The Non-Armor
6:17 The Frankenstein
7:09 The Mage Armor
8:01 The Mind Armor
8:33 The Jaeger
9:47 The Plot Armor
10:44 The Positive & Negative
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I like the idea of an earth genasi guardian armorer that is covered in stone making them look like a earth elemental.
Rock and roll 😎
During a timeskip, I switched my artificer from battlesmith to armorer. I reflavored them to have magical tattoo armor imbued with power associated with different constellations granted by their new warlock patron who is a literal star.
Ooh, love the multiclassing potential of that!
warlock/artificer is a little MAD
Plot armor taken literally:
A writer protected by their own art, letters and ink moving alongside their ideas about developing a story that involves the events that are happening.
When hit, certain words illuminate themselves depending on the roll the enemy gets "boulder" "dragon" "victory" when they don't match the AC or "flower" "loss" "f**k" when the artificer is hurt
Freaking great twist!!
I love reflavoring. So an entire video about reflavoring? Awesome.
I played a plasmoid creation bard/armorer artificer. He was just a goo that woke up in the cast off potions bin in a wizard's study and learned how to reshape the bin into armor with his innate creative impulse. He went off looking for his "dad" who went off for Spell components one day and never came back.
My backup is an Armorer, Guardian primary. His race is a Metallic dragonborn but I'm flavoring him as a warforged who breathes lightning. Basically just a big murder bot.
Another idea I thought was cool, stemming from your Frankenstein idea and some Elden Ring inspiration is a grafter, you just take limbs and other parts of monsters or people you kill and graft them onto yourself as a means of providing the armor. Lots of potential honestly and thats part of why I love artificer so much, they can really be anything
Agreed! Slap any modification on and you got such a fun character! Nice flavor with the warforged!
Some small race like a kobold or goblin who’s armor is a a big cooking pot with arms and legs. They cast their spells with cooks utensils, maybe multiclassing into wizard for a cookbook
Me and a friend of mine actually are making a subclass like your Jaeger concept- a mechanized suit that my human teen pilots to protect his city! Not at all an anime trope I swear
They got a whole ttrpg about that now! Fun stuff!
XD literally just reflavored an artificer as this video came up, made a story about a character who got her armour from the bark of a sacred tree her druidic order worship
Saint Seiya (and old-but-kinda-gold Anime) has a similar concepts, where Heroes wear Sacred Armours, and have different powers associated with them.
You were in tune with the universe! 😂
I am currently playing in a campaign as this type of artificer. For his backstory I had him a researcher who was in the process of learning more about warforged but his colleges refused to continue his research. So he took it into his own hands, murdering and dissecting one, he proved his theories correct. Creating his armor out of the body of the warforged he killed. He was on the run. But after completing his armor (and meeting up with the party) he decided it was time to show the world what he has discovered. His current goal is to present the armor to the king to try and bolster their military.
He has found another body and has turned it into the other armor. And somehow some way do to poor rolling whenever one of the party gets suspicious due to something he says. The rest of the party hasn’t yet discovered his secret.
He is fun to play. Evil, crazy scientist, manipulative to a high degree. But because he is so helpful in combat (he is mostly a heal bot), people don’t question some of his questionable actions
Another ideal is you can draw inspiration from none other than Marvel's most popular hero Spider-Man. While most people want to make him a monk that doesn't really work for Spidey because he's a tinkerer. There's also the fact that you can flavor as either Peter, Ben Riley, Kaine Parker, or Miles.
I like the Symbiotic Living Armour idea. Inspired by the Spores Druid and Swarm Ranger, I would tend to go with a swarmy armour (mushrooms, (Mononoke-like) worms, ants ... forget Iron Man, say hi to Ant Man). And the familiar would be a subset of the swarm taking an inocuous animal form, like a cat.
My personal idea for an Armour/Armourer comes from Saint Seiya, where the armour is vaguely-divine, vaguely-sentient, and the wearer had to earn it, being kind of chosen by the armour.
Idk why but anything spores and mushrooms just tickles my brain
i'm playing an artifacier with a symbiote but what we did mechanically was tweak the battlesmith so you could "wear" the iron defender, which basically just amounted to ruling we were one creature for spell targeting, using the best save, if they differ and having powerful build while joined.
My idea for a Jaeger Armorer Artificer is being a Reborn of a Small-sized lineage pretending to be a robotic Warforged inside the armor, perhaps hiding the fact that they're (un)alive.
If you start the campaign at Lv3+, you can even keep this a secret from the party. Design certain tells that the DM can throw at other players to try and notice.
This is one of the most creative videos of DnD character ideas I've seen, thank you. Please keep doing this.
I wrote a Artificer trying to replicate the power of a Werebeast but artificial. Meaning, the Armor is designed after a Werewolf
I remeber an armorer artificier concept I had in my back pocket for a while. A member of a five man enforcer unit of a city (Basically Power Rangers SPD, but with a fantasy twist). The armor of the character is standard issue for the unit and come in five distinct colors. However, this character had to resine from his unit, taking the armor with him because the other enforcers were becoming more corrupt and violent. I was hoping to use this in a magitech-like setting to open up story possibilities.
You had me at power rangers 😂
Way back in the artificer flavor video you mentioned the Vivomancer idea and that really sang to me. I imagined an artificer transplanting parts of other creatures into himself (Island of Doctor Moreau style) and specifically taking the feat Devil's Sight by putting an actually devil's eye into his head. I don't have any new ideas to contribute today but it was pretty cool to see an image of basically that in one of your videos. And, yes, I'm going to look at your Splicer Warlock.
A devil's eye into the head is a great contribution!!
I took inspiration from a few of these concepts and for a campaign I’m running this summer. I’ve decided I’d play as shiftling armorer. Over time I’ve collected dna from animals and monsters alike for genetic modification. Once I gain the ability to forge my armor I combine the concoction with my own. With the armor being the “mediator” all 3 parts assimilate leaving me as the D&D version of Cell.
I came up with a concept like your Jaeger…. A fairy “piloting” to be medium sized….
Love the Arcane armour idea….. 🧠 ticking on that concept 😁👍
Trading for the fairy idea! Lol
@@TheClericCorner part of a feypunk idea I’m working on. What would happen if the inhabitants of the feywild came into the material world & was inspired by steampunk… art nouveau like aesthetic…
Some awesome ideas here. Though you kind of danced around one in particular I was pondering myself.. I've always liked the idea of playing a proper dragon, but not for the power-factor, but just how different adventuring would be from the perspective of say, a 10 year old, small dragon. While the monsters-as-a-class aren't a built in feature for 5e, it occurred to me you could do mostly the same thing by taking artificer, where your abilities in armorer are just your physical (and magical) body maturing and getting more powerful. It's not a perfect fit, obviously, but there's many ways to get the effect of a breath weapon, or even just a smaller, more rapid fire with the stealthier armor version.
I am playing a small Plazmoid that is the Jaeger for its armor.
Cool to see the idea here too!
I think that a plasmoid armor would be pretty fun, the plasmoid can change the shape of its body at will which means that a plasmoid armor would be the Terminator from Terminator 2
I once ran a rock gnome named Oz who used his armor to make him 6ft (no helmet) to pass himself off as an elf monk with all of his infusions as his "ki"
Now that's a wild one! 😂
@@TheClericCorner it wasn't reflavoring like any of yours Oz was lying to everyone
i'm using a furniture maker armorer artificer and is a lot of fun
I want to play an armorer who, like Yoh Asakura in Shaman King, incorporates a spirit into himself (which is his armor). So I flavor his many tool proficiencies as being in contact with spirits of great artisans, and mage hand is one more spirit.
So I know I'm late to the party, but the Yaeger idea is something I've been thinking about but couldn't quite figure out how it would work.
Your video definitely helped, and I've even gotten an idea.
An Artificer Gnome whose family is a long line of Golemancers. His family would hand down the tradition to their descendants every generation. His parents had taught him everything that they could about Golemancy and A.G. (idk a name yet) uses his knowledge on Golems for his suit.
Of course, his parents are always worried about him and send "mystic messages" through his Golem just to make sure he's doing alright, eating well, etc.
The idea needs a bit more refinement but you get the over all image.
I like the idea of a Warhammer 40K Tech Priest
I would expand your Were-Beast flavor with the Skinchanger Artificer. Skinchanger belongs to a reclusive Ranger-like conclave of skin-tanners which processes beastlike creatures hides with runes as for it to keep their properties. For example donning Behir scalearmor, or Thunderbear hides (homebrewed it just now) grants fitting armor model properties
... loved this!
Wizard: this isn’t going well is it?!
Artificer: nope, guess it’s time to wake up D.O.UG.!
Wizard: who’s dou…
*menacing element machine noises*
Artificer: *laughing psychotically* D.O.U.G.! Durable omi-use guardian!
Wizard : *shits themselves*
Great ideas! Plot armor made me laugh.
Anyone who likes the Jaeger flavor should check out Dungeon Dad's Spirit Warrior video. So cool!
Ooh, I saw that! Thank you Flutes!
i had an idea like with the Fey touched feat or with the Aberrant Dragonmark for one of my charatcers.
Fey touched: when he got khm touched by the Fey something else came with it, something thats devour weapons and armor and makes them into themself like any unity. In short terms agent venom but fey version.
Aberrant Dragonmark: when the mark manifested on him he feelt something else besides the dragonmark something that is with in him, a pressence of something greater, a fiend or a higher being which makes the mark stronger and bigger, making it into an armor, or a weapon. In short terms think like a ...Balance breaker from high school dxd? yeah like a balance breaker. Like issei's boosted gear: scale mail...the transformation for short
I had a character who was burned in a fire in which he lost his right arm. He now pretends to be a warforged always walking around in his special armor.
Nice backstory!
I have an idea for a reborn character who died defending a sacred cave full of crystals and after dying and being priced by the magical crystals they were brought back and somewhat infested by the crystals
I played a warforged Armorer with a dip into Runeknight Fighter, in a Rime of the Frostmadien game, after getting the alien blaster and a sun blade, i became a Gundam.
My next campaign I’m planning on flavoring my armor and gear around 40k ork mek boy
My best Tank build so far is a Mark of Warding Dwarf Armorer 4/Abjuration Wizard 16 with the Durable and Dwarven Fortitude feats. Virtually unkillable due to all the layered HP, 630+ regenerating HP over the course of a long fight.
Lore wise, her name is Abigail Armiger, a 40k Squat that was displaced from her universe when her race mysteriously disappeared, with her ending up in a fantasy setting with a broken suit of high tech armor. The first 4 levels is her getting the armor jury-rigged enough to start working, then the rest is her unlocking access to the suits many functions. And don’t call her Dwarf, she’s wack you with her trusty auto-spanner (Warhammer).
Once I discussed relavouring an armourer artificer into a Witch.
Your Armour is more than just a normal srt of armour, but rather your collection of charms, beads, babbles, rune carved leather, hide and fur that you wear. Rather than the armour itself that is so magical, it is all of your goodies that are all on it that give you power.
Lightning launcher is easily a medalian or charm that shoots magic, thunder guantlets are pretty easy charmed gloves or rings that inflict a "inflict wounds" like attack or curse. Pretty thematic for witches to touch someone and hurt them with a screeching noise cutting through their mind
Leather Armour!.... I never said it was animal leather.
Any chance you could do a reflavoured Battlerager Barbarian? Underrated and oft-forgotten subclass...
Aww I wanted more TTRPG’s
Maybe next week!
I have an armorer artificer and wild magic barbarian multiclass on the bench. He is a faun who was born with an overabundance of wild magic, which caused arcane infections (cantrips firing within muscle tissue) to occur. He might have lost a limb or three to a frostbite that occurred within the muscles. His mentor (using gold gained through dubious means) invested in artificial limbs that would move using the excess wild magic as a power source. This stopped the surges for awhile, but the wild magic grew stronger as he aged. Alphonse decided to power his inventions (spells) and armor from his excess wild magic. His model is the guardian, so his thunder gauntlets are powered through (again) sapping the excess. However, all these powered elements are not enough - when he is upset, the wild magic bursts forth - the armor unable to contain it but removing it from his system so he does not loose another limb to a misplaced frostbite.
He is also a super artistic / fashion driven fellow, so he likes to decorate his armor with stained glass and intricate brass elements. He attends craft fairs and sells beautiful stained glass windows for a couple silvers.
Alphonse is also the blunt and less than talkative sort due to his upbringing. His mentor was not talkative, so the two communicated through actions rather than words. He will likely show his affection to his potential party members in a similar vein.
I hope to play him sometime. There's more to him, but I wanted to keep this short and related to his class flavoring.
Attunement = Surgically Grafted
Makes sense to me
Cool
I got an idea for an armorer artificer who is an Eladrin with magical tree armor.
Most of these are fantastic ideas! Have a sub!
I'll take it!
I am a kobold inside a suit of armor that makes me the size of a normal person, then I cast enlarge on myself to be big
About to play as a rock gnome mech pilot who lives in his armor rv
That Frankenstein monster idea is killer!
Lol pun intended?
the fashionista
I want to do this in dnd
An idea I have had (Based on your Artificer video) is a Spy Armourer, using leather armour under their impeccable suit.
Super stealth 😎
A warforged whose armor is whatever matter is near by. In a cave, bits of the stone walls and moss fly into me forming armor. In a forest, bark and leaves come to me and become my second skin. In a lake? Water plants or the water itself freezes into armor.
Weaver artificer whose armored form is a swirl of shawls.
Gun dams or halo Spartans
the Jaeger, is a reflavour i often used for Steel Defender. Enlarged & Mounted. like some kinda Power Ranger or Blue Gender Pilot.
Heck yeah!! Might have to steal that!
@@TheClericCorner well for ideas to steal for Battlesmith Artificer. The Frankenstein Tamer. With the Steel Defender (& homunculus etc) like an undead ranger.
@@TheClericCorner The Combiner: especially if your a warforged. Flavour mounting your Steel Defender as plugging together. Like so many mecha do in fiction.
Would that make you a “Yeagermeister”? 😊
Wait was that soul sacrifice art?
in ravnica the simic are evolutionists and biomancers. i barrowed the idea of a living armor. but it being creature and living plant. algae and bio organic adaptations. spells and infusions being similar to studied adaptations and mutations. allowing for the growth and change of spells, infusions, and even armor modes.
I'm building a mech horse weapons platform.
Using a custom centaur with int and con
My dm says we're cool to have a warforged ride on my back, we're going to get real scifi and lasers with it. Rider is a warlock pact of the blade archer for railgun and laser eldritch blasts.
I'll run expeditious retreat and stay on the move. We have guidance targeting systems and the warlock can fish for crits to smite 😊
I play a warforged armorer who just augments his own body B)
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Things they should have never done. Swap Magic Missile with the Artillerist and Shield spell with the Armorer. Armorer needs the shield spell. Ways you can go around this is Strixhaven background, custom lineage or variant human for racial feats. -- Also taking Wizard 2 (War Wizard) seems to not be a big deal. - This also slows progression to the 'cap stone' feature of level 9 with overriding the infusion level but if magic items are prevalent in your campaign and you can purchase magic items, I would take this route. -- Lower levels you are the tankiest of tanks if you look at supplementing your saves, AC and hp (tough feat accomplishes this with the Widlspacer background or one of the starting feat races.) -- Know that you aren't going to do be doing damage and that's okay. Play a utility tank and be okay with that if you want to be an armorer. Don't fall into the trap of trying to be good at everything, you are self sufficient and can setup your team do do damage and keep them healthy.
Flavor wise: Experiment. Mega Man? Metroid/Samus? Use forbidden rites to incorporate demons or monsters into your armor. Use forgotten rites and carve symbols into your skin to cast your spells. Use the campaign as inspiration and modify accordingly.
My flair was a goblin who found a long forgotten suit of armor that had history behind it of an epic battle that was damaged. Having a knack for figuring things out, pilots it like a mecha and is a medium sized creature to masquerade among the non-evil races and become the hero he always wanted to be hiding in anonymity for fear of the backlash of his racial prejudices, never once letting the party once I was a goblin. At the end of the campaign he showed himself when he received a medal for his bravery.
this is a good thought, because the only complaint a person could really have with the armorer is it's kind of a...chicken breast class. it's real good, but it's a little dry if you don't add your own flavor.